Strategic CIO

I have good news for the CIO community: Senior executives at leading companies are getting the message that leveraging information and technology to improve competitive advantage changes the dynamics of the enterprise and must be at the core of every corporate strategy. Here are a few examples. The board of ANZ Bank in Australia hired Filippo Passerini, former CIO of Procter & Gamble and currently an operating executive with The Carlyle Group, and three other …

I didn’t know what to expect when Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini agreed to be interviewed for my book, The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise. Passerini rose through the ranks at P&G to become not only CIO, but also president of the company’s Global Business Services division. Given that P&G is an $84.2 billion consumer products company with almost 5 billion customers in 70 countries, managing one of its four main business …

Why can’t IT organizations figure out how to avoid the high project-failure rate experienced by so many companies? You would think that with all the project portfolio management (PPM) solutions available today, companies would be able to successfully deliver projects on time, within budgeted cost, and achieve the desired business results. Peter Weill has been studying project governance for years. Weill is Chairman of the Center for Information Systems Research and Senior Research Scientist at …

I’m sure you remember the times your email system slowed to a crawl or one of your business applications crashed. A senior vice-president of an electronics manufacturing company told me that when this happened to him, he said to himself, “If the CIO were standing in front of me right now, I would give him a piece of my mind.” Read on to find out how CIOs get themselves into this dilemma and discover a …

CIOs who expand their role beyond the traditional purview of IT can significantly boost the bottom line by improving business processes. It requires CIOs to have business acumen and organizational skills, on top of technology prowess, but the result can be a more competitive and nimble business. Business execs manage a complex set of processes within their departments and, as a result, don’t have the bandwidth to comprehend the ever-changing process complexities in other departments. …

In a video interview series for SarderTV, Phil Weinzimer interviews Steve Heilenman, CIO of Computer Aid, about leadership, smart hiring, and why learning is so important to organizational success.

The role of the Chief Information Officer in today's rapidly changing marketplace requires a transformation from a tactical role to one that is more strategic. I recently attended the CIO100 conference sponsored by CIO Magazine. CIOs from Xerox,